helomech
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| I had a question related to Class D My experience is that in practice, class D amps generally sound about half as powerful as an AB counterpart of the same power rating. This isn’t to say that will be the case with any class D amp, but it’s a pattern that was prominent in the early ... | |
| Magico A5, Wilson SabrinaX, or PS Audio FR30? PS Audio of course. Grandpa Paul’s content-marketing machine will convince you. | |
| Tube preamp: Cary SLP-03 vs Schiit Freya+ Try a Bel Canto Pre5. Sounds more like a good tube preamp than the Freya+, regardless of what tubes are rolled into the latter (even the overrated Ken Rad 231s). Yeah, it’s more than twice the price but the leap in sound quality is worth every pen... | |
| Tube preamp: Cary SLP-03 vs Schiit Freya+ The problem with the Freya+ is it doesn’t really provide the sound characteristics tubes are known for. Its tube stage sounds like what you get with a tube buffer, i.e. a very slight increase in “bloom.” Doesn’t matter what tubes you roll into the... | |
| The Big Misconception About Electricity I wish someone would make a video explaining why it is that so many gullible dummies have enough money to afford high-end audio equipment. Trust funds I suppose. | |
| Best Phono You've Heard Under $2200 The Lounge LCR has a huge bass hump in its response. It’s an incredibly inaccurate RIAA curve, so probably not fair to expect any other preamp to offer similar levels of midbass. The Lounge is a good example of why these days, I am weary of purcha... | |
| Moving away from inefficient/low impedance speaker in order to move to a Tube Amp As an owner of Altecs you probably know that exquisite midrange is not a trait exclusive to Harbeth. Many speakers in that price range are equals or better than the C7s in that regard, so no good reason to limit your amp choice to those unless you... | |
| Tube Vs. SS Preamps You are asking the wrong question. What tubes offer that SS cannot compete with is space. You hear a soundstage where vocals and instruments have their own space. Except this just isn’t the case when concerning reference quality SS compone... | |
| Tube Vs. SS Preamps After living with super low distortion SS products from Exposure, Benchmark, and Bel Canto, I actually find that tube gear leads to earlier onset of fatigue, even when the tube gear is of relatively low distortion. | |
| Preamp recommendations for my system please Try the Benchmark LA4 if absolute transparency is one of your goals. Prior to owning a Benchmark stack, I was of the belief that distortion and noise performance is not so critical. Turns out that notion is very wrong. I figure the reason that som... | |
| Replacement for current speakers suggestions Magnepan .7s. One of the most musical and non-fatiguing speakers on the planet. | |
| What comes after Harbeth 30.1s? If Rosso are that much better than these brands, let the free market speak for itself :)The free market often doesn’t work that way, unfortunately. If it always did, Bose wouldn’t sell nearly as many speakers and headphones as they do. The issue i... | |
| How To Do You Measure the Quality of Your AC Power? I wonder if my amplifier would sound better without those SMPS’s on the same circuit. I also wonder if they interfere with each other.Not if your amplifier is competently designed.Save your money. Power regenerators do absolutely nothing for soun... | |
| How To Do You Measure the Quality of Your AC Power? Most audio components are completely immuned to dirty mains power. There are some exceptions (some Rogue Audio stuff for example), but otherwise, the most common problem is humming/buzzing toroidal transformers from DC offset. This is something yo... | |
| Quantum Science Audio Thread Hey there Q Anonaudiophiles. What about the effect of 5G on your system? I wonder which SR fuse tackles that problem… |